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"Matchless cavalier," he asked, with a wry assumption of politeness, "would you show me that thrust you esteem so highly?"
One by one the various nations demonstrated this to President Taft's satisfaction or with wry faces made the readjustments necessary.
Warner felt some wry pleasure, although it meant nothing, really, except an opportunity to rub Hunter's nose in a minor blunder.
Caroline tells her friends things which she thinks exceedingly flattering, but which cause a sagacious husband to make a wry face.
With a wry face, as if the taste were extremely acrid, he moistened his handkerchief and wiped off his tongue vigorously.
To the silent question in Tamara's eyes Jennie made a wry face of disgust, shivered with her back and nodded her head affirmatively.
It held more than sharpness; they were exchanging some wry understanding, and Ben was oppressed at feeling himself a patronized, tiresome child.
Eugene at first made a wry face, saying one must be rich to occupy such posts, to which influential men were usually nominated.
"You imagine, perhaps, that I am asking for money," said the mysterious gentleman, with a wry smile, laughing hysterically and turning pale.
"See here, Carter, this won't do," said his caller, making a wry face; "I believe that you have been shamming these two months."
The creature wagged its tail and took it eagerly, then after receiving it into its mouth pulled a wry face and hesitated, astonished.
The young fellows who had taken the mares made rather wry faces, bitterly lamenting their bad fortune in finding us friends.
"I fancy I'll need mine all night," said Laura in an undertone with a wry little grimace, as Violet went back for the candles.
Too ravenous to wait until it was thoroughly cooked, the boys began to eat it, but Maurice made a wry face at his second mouthful.
The potion was not insignificant in quantity or strength, and the wry face he made did not add to the amiability of his expression.
Added Horace, making a wry face; "you better look out when they're green: they pucker your mouth up a good deal worse'n choke cherries."
One incurable fault she had; this was the movement of her lips, which often amounted to what is called making a wry face.
The deadly potion was poured out into twenty-nine different vessels, and, with faces more or less wry, the Senators swallowed the fatal mixture.
Mingled with their contempt and disgust, there was an acknowledgment of the quality of him, of a kind of wry and shabby greatness.
No sooner had he swallowed the liquid than he hurled the cup from him and leaped to his feet coughing and making wry faces.
He protested, to be sure; but acquiesced in the end with a wry face when I told him that the Princess and I were determined.
He was not insensible, and thought that she was not, to an element of rather wry comedy which had crept into their relations.
Each takes the proffered cup and drinks, makes a wry face, for it is intensely bitter, and stands motionless perhaps half a minute.
The cook offered her a glass and she, vanquished, drank and drank, making a wry face because of the alcoholic intensity of the liquid.
That weary, hopeless expression, the wry twist of his lips, wrung her heart and drew from her a yearning little whisper: "Bill!"
He said it in the same untroubled tone he had always used in asking for his weekly check, and Johnson looked up with a wry smile.
Since then, English literature, not without many previous wry faces, has adopted or taken back many words from this side of the water.
He dropped into the water and swam to meet Gerald, who was struggling gallantly along, making very wry faces, and swallowing quantities of water.
You've got to vote for a Radical with one side of your mouth, and make a wry face with the other; but he'll turn round by-and-by.
Astonishingly petty seem many of the charges; even the calling of degrading nicknames, making of wry faces, jeering, and "finger-sticking" were fined and punished.
However, some wry faces were made over the unlucky soup at the table, and the King of Sweden's taste was the subject of much merriment.
The Navigation Acts were swallowed by the colonists with wry faces for a century or so, and they were beginning to get used to it.
On receiving this explanation, the chief of police made a wry face, for he now perceived how cleverly he had been outwitted by the watchmaker.
The helpful one reluctantly pressed his thumb against the wry bottom of the can, aiming the twisted spout at odd parts of the mower.
The gazing crowd is thrown into raptures, while they grin and shout at the wry faces made by the luckless object of their mirth.
The prodigal son yawned and stretched his limbs; then with a wry face stood erect and wiped the sleep from his one good eye.
Monsieur sipped it slowly, making a wry face, for, true Gaul that he was, only two kinds of stimulants appealed to his palate, liqueurs and wines.
"It's so salt that sugar doesn't sweeten it," added Susie, making a wry face at the first mouthful and taking a hasty swallow of water.
"When a thing is utterly beyond one's reach," rejoined Samuel, looking, with a wry face, right into the soul of the attorney, "how beautiful it appears."
In the latter part of the same paragraph, the allusion is to the wry faces, which the speeches of this imperious member of council sometimes caused.
She turned to Rodney, looked at him at first with a wry pucker between her eyebrows, then with a smile, and finally answered his question.
It seemed to him that the blinded figures were making wry faces, mocking at him and winking with the gaping little holes in their eyes.
Theoretically, the new loaf was to prove a palatable change; practically, the wry expression of countenance it evoked in the process of mastication demonstrated the contrary.
He had the most wizened of faces, and when he got angry with his shoe, he pulled so wry a grimace that it was quite laughable.
Those that paint these people dying after this manner, represent the prisoner spitting in the faces of his executioners and making wry mouths at them.
History does not record whether the potion acted as an emetic or not, but it may be safely assumed that the chief made an exceedingly wry face.
He nodded to us curtly, and almost smiled at her; but that one wry twist of his lips was his nearest approach to pleasantry that morning.
Raymond heard in silence my account of the doings on the Atlantic shore: only a wry twist of the mouth and a flare of the nostrils.
I caught sight of Davenport, the tailor, with a wry face, talking against the noise; of Banks, the man I had hired, resplendent in my livery.
Instead of that he pulled a very wry face, bowed himself humbly, and said: "How could I be such a villain as to seduce my master's wife?"
All the resentment and doubt that had been torturing Joy, was dispelled by the sight of that desolate figure and those few wry little words.
Down went the medicine, and, without a whimper and with only a wry face to tell how she really felt, Susan smiled bravely up at Grandmother.
It was accepted by the new government of Germany with a wry face, as the judgment of the victors naturally would be taken by the vanquished.
"Oh, well," replied Jack gleefully, "you can't blame Tim for making a wry face over swallowing his dose; but it may do him good, after all."
There she smiled still more serenely, pointed a mocking finger at her enemy's wry mouth, and slipped away without a word, and almost without a sound.
Curious seams and wrinkles gave the continuous impression that the old gentleman had just swallowed something very bitter, and was making a wry face over it.
Strong medicine, that, to be swallowed with a wry face, if you will; but it is guaranteed to cure if the sufferer is not a mental and moral weakling.
"Of course," Jane said with a wry look, and in a tactful instant she had slipped past them and out, gently closing the office door behind her.
His foot seemed badly swollen, but he desisted from an attempt to remove the torn and clotted stocking with a wry smile, and put on the shoe again.
He stood for a moment at the foot of the back stairs looking with complacency upon the darkness, his candle lighting up his little old wry face.
And once, after he had shaken hands with that boss, he looked at me, furtively made a wry face, and wiped his hand with his pocket handkerchief!
Agatha and a footman in attendance while beside her sat the Viscount, one arm in a sling, dutifully sipping a dish of tea and making wry faces over it.
He made a wry face and a little clicking noise with his tongue, such as the women of his race make when they drop and break some household utensil.
Its newness did not deter the boys from helping themselves to big swigs from the jug, smoothing out their wry faces with drafts of sugar water.
The wolf pulled a very wry face, but did not let himself be frightened, and attacked him again, on which the huntsman gave him the second barrel.
Conversation languished and at length Miss Craven gave it up, with a wry face, and sat also silent, drumming with her fingers on the arm of the chair.
The branches of the trees swayed and creaked above us in the sunshine; and at last, looking down on me with a wry face, Adam promised to do my bidding.
"Slugs are nasty slimy things," said the thrush, "but in these hard times one must eat what one can get," and he swallowed the slug with a wry face.
The acquaintance would make a wry face and loan him five francs instead of twenty, and sometimes nothing at all; for a man in a threadbare coat does not inspire confidence.
This was received with a hurrah by the men, but, on taking the "snort," it was so bitter with quinine that the wry faces along the line were universal.
When Alec had concluded his examination of the shipper's beds, he went directly to their owner, though he made a wry face as he thought of what was probably before him.
Just my own condition: I have had a revolution in my small affairs too; I am banished, and going to look for the next commodious tree to make a wry face upon it.
The actress is quite as proud as the Duchess of Portsmouth: she spites her, makes wry faces at her, assails her, and often carries the King off from her.
You could often watch in his face the habitual practice of patience, as, with a wry smile and a contemptuous remark, he dismissed some disagreeable topic or other from his thoughts.
Big Josh made a wry face, but he immediately went to speak to his aged cousin, looking threateningly at the crowd who had dared to giggle at anyone related to him.
I am alone, and must ever be, while in the flesh; and I hoard my pain, sparing the world my moans and tears, my wry faces and desperate struggles.
"College next," said Tom, and he made a wry face, for studying was not particularly in his line, although he could knuckle down as hard as anyone when it was necessary.
That there the child for the first time in his life looked into a mirror that revealed him to himself from head to foot, little wry neck, hunched back and all.
There they were, hideously close, with an expression on their faces that I could not read; a sort of wry look, every nose and beak turned a little to one side.
A historian of hearts is not a historian of emotions, yet he penetrates further, restrained as he may be, since his aim is to reach the wry fount of laughter and tears.
With a philosophic shrug and the wry, quaint smile so peculiarly his own, he stretched forth a hand to take up his manuscript; but in the very act, remembering, withheld it.
Julius is clearly conscious of hating his savior, and the consciousness is acid on his palate as he asks, with a wry smile: "What would your plan be if you were in my place?"
When once I asked him how far his superiors had profited by his account of me, he put on a queer, wry face and said circumstances had obliged him to become inventive.
Had he been Wetter, I should have been alert for the wry smile and the lift of the brows; but he was his simple self, a perfect gentleman unspoiled by thought.
His face was very wry, and there was returning to it the expression of hopelessness which it had worn while we crouched for shelter in the doorway on the night before.
He passed his hand over his face, then turned to her with a faint, wry smile so irresistibly reminiscent of Lady Bassett that Muriel gasped with a sudden hysterical desire to laugh.
Here then is a wry curious prediction of an event, insignificant in itself, which is to happen, in a house unknown to the one who foretells it, to people whom she does not know either.
Presently his features were seen to be considerably distorted by wry faces, as he turned the leg or the wing about in his hands, while picking them, with some difficulty, to the bone.
A wry smile twisted the Watermelon's mouth as he thought of the horror on the general's face when he learned that he had spent the week in the company of a nameless hobo.
Affable, low-keyed, and very small of stature, Jacob displays a wry wit while telling how he began his career as a painter, cartoonist and illustrator before turning to full-time writing in 1956.
His wry mouth was often twisted into a malicious laugh, when a couple of dark red spots appeared upon his cheeks, and a strange hissing sound was heard through his compressed teeth.
Back in her corner, she picked up her chalk, shuffled her drawings into an orderly heap, paused, and with a wry smile dropped them all to the floor and hurried away.
At length the King felt himself, with many wry faces, compelled to make the Prime Minister a K.C.B., a K.G., and other typographical combinations, together with an earl, and subsequently a duke.
If a young woman is obliged to pass near the stone and does not wish to have a child, she will carefully disguise her youth, pulling a wry face and hobbling along on a stick.
Sir James had a wry neck; and he was reproached with this misfortune as if it had been a crime, and was told that it marked him out as a man doomed to the gallows.
And mindful of the wry face the maid had cut the first day he came, she enjoined her emphatically: "Now be real pleasant and friendly to him, so that he always feels at home here."
The tail is one of their chief beauties, and should claim much attention from the breeder, care being taken to guard against wry or squirrel tails, which are very liable to descend to the offspring.
Maxwell spoke thickly, but there was a wry smile on his lips as he watched the big dark-skinned alien, who, rending his cotton robe, bound a pad of wet leaves upon the injured side.
He made an effort to rise from his chair as we entered, but the gout tweaked his toe, and he sat there, groaning and making wry faces as he stretched out his hand to the knight.
The smith stood at a short distance, seeming to enjoy the irritation of the animal, and showing, in a remarkable manner, a huge fang, which projected from the under jaw of a very wry mouth.